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if we had taxes that would be designed to improve our environment. if we -- >> you mean by taxing pollution? >> taxing pollution. >> carbon emissions. >> a general principle that we've known for a long time, a lot better to tax bad things than good things. rather than tax people who work, let's shift some of that burden into things that are bad, like pollution. >> you make it sound so easy. and i'm still hung up on your saying, you know, it would be easy to do these things. and yet, if they were easy, why haven't we done them? >> well, that's the politics. the fact is that we have a political process that i won't say is broken, but is certainly not functioning the way we think a democracy is supposed to function, you know. in democracy, supposed to be one person, one vote. and there's a well-developed theory about what does that imply for the outcome of a political process? we talk about it, called the median voter. it should reflect the middle, you know. some people want more spending. some people want less spending. some people, you know, so the na
if we had taxes that would be designed to improve our environment. if we -- >> you mean by taxing pollution? >> taxing pollution. >> carbon emissions. >> a general principle that we've known for a long time, a lot better to tax bad things than good things. rather than tax people who work, let's shift some of that burden into things that are bad, like pollution. >> you make it sound so easy. and i'm still hung up on your saying, you know, it would be easy to do...
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now, you would think, of course, we all want a healthy environment for our children. but even though more than 100 countries have such guarantees in their constitution, we don't in britain. we don't in the united states, canada, australia, new zealand. >> are there countries getting climate change right? are there countries that are doing the right thing? >> well, lots, lots. i mean, the countries that signed the kyoto protocol, other than canada which withdrew, have all met the target, which was a small target. sweden, i hold up as this shining example, they instituted a carbon tax in the 1990s. i think it was around 1992. they now pay $130 or $140 a ton to put carbon in the atmosphere. they've reduced the greenhouse gas emissions by more than 8% below 1990 levels. and during that time their economy grew by more than 40%. so this whole argument that a carbon tax putting a price on carbon is destructive of the economy is really bogus if we look at a country like sweden. but you know, germany is well on its way to shutting down all of their nuclear plants and 50% renew
now, you would think, of course, we all want a healthy environment for our children. but even though more than 100 countries have such guarantees in their constitution, we don't in britain. we don't in the united states, canada, australia, new zealand. >> are there countries getting climate change right? are there countries that are doing the right thing? >> well, lots, lots. i mean, the countries that signed the kyoto protocol, other than canada which withdrew, have all met the...
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then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous." so it is that while more americans believe global warming is real and caused by human beings, some two-thirds of white evangelical christians are not convinced. and they wield a lot of political clout. these are people who believe that to be saved by god you muso be born again, your heart and mind transformed by a cathartic spiritual experience. but as the climate crisis worsens every day, it's clear these good folk need a different kind of conversiof6?ád opens them to the reality overtaking us. only someone they trust, one of their own, is likely to help them see the light. which brings us to katharine hayhoe. you may have of showtime's award-winning documentary series, "years of living dangerously." >> when i look at the information we get from the planet, i look at it as god's creation speaking to us. an
then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous." so it is that while more americans believe global warming is real and caused by human beings, some two-thirds of white evangelical christians are not convinced. and they wield a lot of political clout....
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but you see what effect a black hole has on everything -- it wreaks havoc on its environment. so dark things have a way of manifesting themselves. >> dark money as well. dark energy, dark matter. how do they differ? >> well, unfortunately, they have similar-sounding names. and since we really don't know what either of them is, they -- i don't think we should've named them. we should've given then fake names until we understood them. i've been voting for, fred and wilma. something that doesn't give you any cosmic bias, all right? so i can tell you simply what dark matter is. but don't think of it as matter. i don't want to -- i'm concerned -- >> i don't -- we don't know what it is. so i don't even want to use those two words. if anything, it's dark gravity. because we look in the universe, and we see the effects of gravity, and they say, "let's add up all the stars and galaxies and planets and comets and black holes, everything we know about, to account for this gravity that we see." we account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. there is no known obj
but you see what effect a black hole has on everything -- it wreaks havoc on its environment. so dark things have a way of manifesting themselves. >> dark money as well. dark energy, dark matter. how do they differ? >> well, unfortunately, they have similar-sounding names. and since we really don't know what either of them is, they -- i don't think we should've named them. we should've given then fake names until we understood them. i've been voting for, fred and wilma. something...
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where does the environment fit into that? where does human potential and, you know, for anything other than having some money in your hand, you know, where does -- where do people stand when they have health needs or when they make a mistake in life? you know, it was said a long time ago, you judge a society by is hospitals and its prisons. by that standard we're -- you know, we have a lot to be ashamed of. >> those of us who've seen "the wire" know that the people you're writing about are those losers. they're the people who are without value to society. and president obama is on the record as saying that "the wire" is his favorite tv series of all time. do you think he gets it? >> i think he probably gets it. i don't think obama is any different from the person i thought we elected two election cycles ago. i think he's encountered a rigged game. and i don't think the next guy will have anything other than a rigged game. and i think, you know, considering the gerrymandering that has made the representative aspect of our legi
where does the environment fit into that? where does human potential and, you know, for anything other than having some money in your hand, you know, where does -- where do people stand when they have health needs or when they make a mistake in life? you know, it was said a long time ago, you judge a society by is hospitals and its prisons. by that standard we're -- you know, we have a lot to be ashamed of. >> those of us who've seen "the wire" know that the people you're...
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and we need him to actually stand up for the environment. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. in our last broadcast i promised you more of david simon, and i'll keep that promise down the road, but right now, because of the news, my guest is a jour
and we need him to actually stand up for the environment. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our...
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we want to protect the environment. we believe we should join the rest of the world in terms of having health care for all, single-payer health care for all, et cetera, et cetera. when people begin to move, the people on top will follow them. so, whether it's hillary or anybody else, what we have got to do is mobilize the american people in a way that we have not seen in recent history around a progressive agenda. bill, every poll that i have seen, when they ask the american people, what is the most important issue that you're concerned about? you know what they say? jobs and the economy. how come we are not investing heavily in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. $1 trillion invested in rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, rail creates 13 million decent-paying jobs. you know what? the american people want us to do that. they want us to raise the minimum wage. so, you need a very strong agenda. you need a mechanism. and you've asked a hard question. easier to say than to do, to rally people around that agenda.
we want to protect the environment. we believe we should join the rest of the world in terms of having health care for all, single-payer health care for all, et cetera, et cetera. when people begin to move, the people on top will follow them. so, whether it's hillary or anybody else, what we have got to do is mobilize the american people in a way that we have not seen in recent history around a progressive agenda. bill, every poll that i have seen, when they ask the american people, what is the...
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the thing that caught with me is, you are doing this to protect natural resources and the environment for your generation, for your friends, and for your future generations. you know, it's also an honor. it's an honor to be a plaintiff on a lawsuit. because it's a movement that i'm a part of. it's in no way my lawsuit. i'm just a representative, you know, of the people of oregon. >> but at 15, you should've been reading "the hunger games," right? i mean, not legal briefs, not delving into the public trust doctrine. blame it on my parents, you know? >> how so? >> they brought me up with this. you know, people always ask, when did i start this? if you really want to track it down, my first rally, i believe i was two months old. when i was in middle school i was known as the eco girl, the girl who would run down the hallway in my school and turn off all the lights, you know. things like that. >> do some of your friends in high school think you're weird? >> no. they seem to all support me but not join me. which is almost worse than not supporting me, you know, because they get it. and the
the thing that caught with me is, you are doing this to protect natural resources and the environment for your generation, for your friends, and for your future generations. you know, it's also an honor. it's an honor to be a plaintiff on a lawsuit. because it's a movement that i'm a part of. it's in no way my lawsuit. i'm just a representative, you know, of the people of oregon. >> but at 15, you should've been reading "the hunger games," right? i mean, not legal briefs, not...
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instead, most would point to a tough political environment, a hostile senate map and more than anything else an unpopular president, as the factors that dragged down democrats nationwide. to what extent do you think money mattered last week? >> it mattered enormously. it mattered in the selection of candidates. you know, long before we even heard their names, the candidates were selected if they were basically comfortable working for big-money donors. and that in itself gets you out of the realm of inspirational leadership. and then, of course, it mattered in the drowning of ads and the sense that people outside of any accountable power, super pacs outside of any accountable power, were really sort of running the system. so, i think made a huge difference and i think if you instead imagine the counterfactual, imagine this last election where in every competitive district, you'd seen competitive primaries with people with publicly financed campaigns who stepped forward because they had something to say, not because they were next in line and not because they could raise money. we would h
instead, most would point to a tough political environment, a hostile senate map and more than anything else an unpopular president, as the factors that dragged down democrats nationwide. to what extent do you think money mattered last week? >> it mattered enormously. it mattered in the selection of candidates. you know, long before we even heard their names, the candidates were selected if they were basically comfortable working for big-money donors. and that in itself gets you out of...
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eliminating health care, putting endless percentage of black and brown people in jail, destroying the environment and there's no public outrage. there aren't people in the streets. you know, you have to ask yourself, has this market mentality, is it so powerful and that it's become so normalized, so taken for granted that the imagination, the collective imagination has been so stunted that it becomes difficult to challenge it anymore? and i think that leads me to despair somewhat. but i've always felt that in the face of the worst tyrannies, people resist. they're resisting now all over the world. and it seems to me history is open. i believe history is open. i don't believe that we have reached the finality of a system that is so destructive that all we have to do is look at the clock and say, one minute left. i don't believe in those kinds of metaphors. we have to acknowledge the realities that bear down on us, but it seems to me that if we really want to live in a world and be alive with compassion and justice, then we need educated hope. we need a hope that recognizes the problems and doesn't
eliminating health care, putting endless percentage of black and brown people in jail, destroying the environment and there's no public outrage. there aren't people in the streets. you know, you have to ask yourself, has this market mentality, is it so powerful and that it's become so normalized, so taken for granted that the imagination, the collective imagination has been so stunted that it becomes difficult to challenge it anymore? and i think that leads me to despair somewhat. but i've...
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and to create an environment in which poor and working class people are pit against one another. but that does not mean that, you know, all or even most poor or working class white folks are harboring any conscious racial resentments. i know that there are those folks out there, for sure. but i think much of it lies in the unconscious, stereotypes and fears and biases that we all have within us that get exploited in these moments where groups are scapegoated and fears are stoked, resulting in, you know, the emergence of these new systems. i mean, we are having mass deportation today at the same time as we are having mass incarceration. >> mass deportation, i must say, by a black president. >> absolutely. it's one of the great ironies. just as it's, you know, an irony that the greatest escalation of the drug war was under president clinton who, you know, many african-americans called our first black president. >> i remember that. >> and it was president clinton, you know, a democrat, who escalated the drug war far beyond what president reagan or president nixon had even dreamed po
and to create an environment in which poor and working class people are pit against one another. but that does not mean that, you know, all or even most poor or working class white folks are harboring any conscious racial resentments. i know that there are those folks out there, for sure. but i think much of it lies in the unconscious, stereotypes and fears and biases that we all have within us that get exploited in these moments where groups are scapegoated and fears are stoked, resulting in,...
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and there, almost reform whether it's the environment or whether it's agriculture or food hits up against the power of big money to write the laws it wants and influence the politicians it needs. you found that to be the case, didn't you? >> kristi jacobson: yes, i think that, you know, i believe, and i don't think naively, that we americans should be able to influence how our politicians vote on these issues. that's not happening right now. and the problem with this issue is that you don't always -- it's not so obvious necessarily how a politician is voting when it comes to programs that address food insecurity. >> bill moyers: there was a poll taken, i think in connection with your film, that found the majority of americans actually were surprised to hear that 50 million people don't know where their next meal is coming from. and many of those polled just don't think of hunger as a pressing issue. given your work on this, how do you explain it? >> mariana chilton: there's this concept that you can somehow see hunger, that we would know that there are hungry children if they were fishing
and there, almost reform whether it's the environment or whether it's agriculture or food hits up against the power of big money to write the laws it wants and influence the politicians it needs. you found that to be the case, didn't you? >> kristi jacobson: yes, i think that, you know, i believe, and i don't think naively, that we americans should be able to influence how our politicians vote on these issues. that's not happening right now. and the problem with this issue is that you...
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it's not the nicest environment for technology. >> i do not want to go any lower than this. it's just bottomless. >> i'm going out here on this broken fin and i assume it won't collapse. this is big stuff happening right now. okay, onward. this is the memory of the landscape. that landscape is gone, it may never be seen again in the history of civilization and it's stored right here. >>> james balog has come here from iceland and alaska with some urgency because what he has to tell us, barack obama and mitt romney simply refuse to talk about. welcome, james balog. >> i'm glad to be here, thank you. >> i've read the science on climate change. and then i read your book and saw your film and suddenly i more than get it. it gets me. does that make sense to you? >> yeah, it does. and that's the same reaction we've heard from many, many, many people across all parts of the philosophical and political spectrum. it really is this convergence of art and science that i think really hits people. and yeah, to be honest with you, having learned about these kind of sciences back when i wa
it's not the nicest environment for technology. >> i do not want to go any lower than this. it's just bottomless. >> i'm going out here on this broken fin and i assume it won't collapse. this is big stuff happening right now. okay, onward. this is the memory of the landscape. that landscape is gone, it may never be seen again in the history of civilization and it's stored right here. >>> james balog has come here from iceland and alaska with some urgency because what he has...
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has a (c) (4), and they focus on gun control or the environment. but they're not supposed to be out the majority of the time, running ads about candidates. so they have to be very careful not to cross that line. here's the problem, the line is this incredible, gray, moving structure. the i.r.s. has, you know, a dozen-part test, where this or that or the other subjective factor can do it. so even if you wanted to comply with all of this and be really careful, it's not easy to do it. so there's no clarity in this, which of course invites people to blow right through it and what happens if you're devious or you really don't care or you just are results-oriented, is you create one of these (c) (4)'s, you run all this money through it, and then you close it down. so it's gone. by the time the i.r.s. gets around to it and might want to audit it, it's defunct. you create another one. so this is the problem that you really face when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it. >> so karl rove sets up a big super pac so it can collect millions of dollars from
has a (c) (4), and they focus on gun control or the environment. but they're not supposed to be out the majority of the time, running ads about candidates. so they have to be very careful not to cross that line. here's the problem, the line is this incredible, gray, moving structure. the i.r.s. has, you know, a dozen-part test, where this or that or the other subjective factor can do it. so even if you wanted to comply with all of this and be really careful, it's not easy to do it. so there's...
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but yet, there's a recent poll that shows people do not think about the environment in the terms they did the day after earth day back in 1971. they're not as concerned about it. >> tim dechristopher: yeah. and, you know, i think one of the weaknesses of the environmental movement and parts of the climate movement is that it's always encouraged people to think as consumers, to think about what they can do in their consumer purchases to drive in a hybrid of, you know, buy the right light bulbs and that sort of thing. and i think that's understandable because we have so many reminders of our role as a consumer. you know, we see, like, 3,000 advertisements a day that all remind us you're a consumer. that's who you are. and we don't have nearly as many reminders that we're also citizens of what was once the greatest democracy in the world. we're also human beings and community members who can connect with one another and inspire one another. and these are also ways that we can be powerful. you know, and these are also the ways that we need to engage. and i think i think there's more of th
but yet, there's a recent poll that shows people do not think about the environment in the terms they did the day after earth day back in 1971. they're not as concerned about it. >> tim dechristopher: yeah. and, you know, i think one of the weaknesses of the environmental movement and parts of the climate movement is that it's always encouraged people to think as consumers, to think about what they can do in their consumer purchases to drive in a hybrid of, you know, buy the right light...
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we want them not to destroy the world's environment, which they will do if other things being equal. and so we want to work with them on avoiding environmental just destruction. we want them to continue bringing people from rural poverty to sort of urban working classness, which is what they've been doing. we want them to grow up in both international and domestic ways. grow up internationally in having a foreign policy that's not just whatever's good for them commercially, which is what their foreign policy is now. and to say, "okay, you have to play a role in iran and syria or whatever, being responsible." domestically, we want them to gain confidence so they don't have to have their foot on their people's neck. most of the time in china you don't know the government's around. just kind of a sort of state of chaos -- >> really? >> and, yeah. >> i mean, not like russia, the soviet union -- >> oh, it's -- >> not that blanket -- >> entirely different. it's most of the time the areas the government cares about, the internet, democratic protest or whatever, taiwan, tibet, they're all ov
we want them not to destroy the world's environment, which they will do if other things being equal. and so we want to work with them on avoiding environmental just destruction. we want them to continue bringing people from rural poverty to sort of urban working classness, which is what they've been doing. we want them to grow up in both international and domestic ways. grow up internationally in having a foreign policy that's not just whatever's good for them commercially, which is what their...
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. >> you've written that climate change has little to do with the state of the environment, but much to do with the state of capitalism and transforming the american economic system and you see an opening with sandy, right? >> i do see an opening because, you know, whenever you have this kind of destruction there has to be a reconstruction and what i documented in the shock doctrine is that these right-wing think tanks leak the american enterprise institute and the cato institute and heritage foundation, they historically have gotten very, very good at seizing these moments of opportunity to push through their wish lists of policies and often their wish lists of policies, after hurricane katrina there was a meeting at the heritage foundation just two weeks after the storm hit. parts of the city were still under water and there was a meeting and "the wall street journal" reported from it and the heading was 31 free market solutions for hurricane katrina and you go down the list and it was -- don't re-open the public schools. replace the public schools with vouchers and drill for oil i
. >> you've written that climate change has little to do with the state of the environment, but much to do with the state of capitalism and transforming the american economic system and you see an opening with sandy, right? >> i do see an opening because, you know, whenever you have this kind of destruction there has to be a reconstruction and what i documented in the shock doctrine is that these right-wing think tanks leak the american enterprise institute and the cato institute...
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of thousands of people from poverty, creating, quote, "good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment." madeline janis led the campaign to pass a living wage ordinance in los angeles. she worked with that city's community redefendant agency, and has advised community organizations and unions all over america. here in new york, rachel laforest is executive director of the organization, "right to the city." now in 11 states, it is dedicated to the principle that urban dwellers, especially the disenfranchised, have a right to shape and design the place where they live. rachel laforest was a student activist, worked in organized labor and at "jobs with justice," where she coordinated a successful effort that raised the new york state minimum wage. welcome to you both. >> madeline janis: thank you. >> rachel laforest: thank you. >> bill moyers: do stories matter as marshall ganz says they do? >> madeline janis: i think that, very, very true that we need story strategy, especially strategy and structure. those things really speak to the idea of a comprehensive, a smart campaign as well as h
of thousands of people from poverty, creating, quote, "good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment." madeline janis led the campaign to pass a living wage ordinance in los angeles. she worked with that city's community redefendant agency, and has advised community organizations and unions all over america. here in new york, rachel laforest is executive director of the organization, "right to the city." now in 11 states, it is dedicated to the principle that...
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so it was a patriotic environment in which patriotism was clearly connected to military service. and at a time when patriotism didn't necessarily encourage questions. and when i graduated from west point, became a serving officer for a period of time, in a sense, i continued to be in that environment. when i got out of the army, at the end of the cold war, never having expected that the cold war was going to end. i mean, i viewed it from my youth as, it's just a permanent fact of international relations. i expected that now that this protracted emergency has ended, that we would become different. the emergency's over. we're going to become a normal nation now. and therefore, we're going to stop doing some of the things that we said we had to do during the cold war. i think the eye-opening thing for me was that rather than becoming a normal nation, we continued the pattern of behavior that we had engaged in during the cold war only more so. we became more committed to military power. we became more persuaded that through the use of military power, we could achieve our purposes in
so it was a patriotic environment in which patriotism was clearly connected to military service. and at a time when patriotism didn't necessarily encourage questions. and when i graduated from west point, became a serving officer for a period of time, in a sense, i continued to be in that environment. when i got out of the army, at the end of the cold war, never having expected that the cold war was going to end. i mean, i viewed it from my youth as, it's just a permanent fact of international...
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in this country for safe food, good food produce under just conditions, treating their labor and the environment correctly. and thank god for the consumers who are conscious about those things, for their own sake, and for their family's sake. that's a huge power there, in the public, among the people. we can tell the retail stores, you've got to tell reynolds america to negotiate an agreement with floc to guarantee the rights of workers at the bottom of their supply chain. they can do that. they can fix that. they have the power to do that. >> what is the issue right now with r.j. reynolds? how long has this campaign been going on? >> been going on almost five years. >> five years. >> yeah. so -- >> what's the issue? >> the issue is that the inequality that they've designed in their supply chain, when they do the pricing of the tobacco, it really amounts to economic marginalization of the small family farmer. so, if the family farmer is marginally -- is financially marginalized, thefarm worker's going to be in a terrible situation trying to be employed by that farmer, by that supplier. so, it's
in this country for safe food, good food produce under just conditions, treating their labor and the environment correctly. and thank god for the consumers who are conscious about those things, for their own sake, and for their family's sake. that's a huge power there, in the public, among the people. we can tell the retail stores, you've got to tell reynolds america to negotiate an agreement with floc to guarantee the rights of workers at the bottom of their supply chain. they can do that....
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chris horner is the senior fellow at the center for energy and environment at the competitive enterprise institute, and the author of the book, "red hot lies." >> fox's host, megyn kelly wondered aloud about whether the country even needed to tackle the problem. and cnn's wolf blitzer cut in soon after -- >> all right, so the president making a major, major address on climate change. i want to bring in jim acosta, and the president has got some important news he's about to release -- >> and then wolf continued to talk over the president's remarks. what do you make of that? >> the meta message is more interesting to journalism than the message itself. people -- >> meta message? >> the meta message is, here's grist for combat between different factions. how is it going to play out? rather than the message, which is, here's what's happening to our climate, here's what we have to do to prevent it. that stuff risks being boring. but combat is never boring. what they don't know how to do is to talk about, well, what are our options here, america? how do we mitigate the effects of climate chang
chris horner is the senior fellow at the center for energy and environment at the competitive enterprise institute, and the author of the book, "red hot lies." >> fox's host, megyn kelly wondered aloud about whether the country even needed to tackle the problem. and cnn's wolf blitzer cut in soon after -- >> all right, so the president making a major, major address on climate change. i want to bring in jim acosta, and the president has got some important news he's about to...
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he measured the climate, the environment. he was trying through his message to bring us all together as one people, as one family, as one house, the american house, the world house. and there was room. there was a place for all americans. it was not just black americans. white americans, latinos, native americans, asian-americans, women, men, everybody. >> but we have largely forgotten that in the beginning, his words were stinging as they spoke about reality. >> in a sense, we have come to our nation's capitol to cash a check. it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro people a bad check. a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." but we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon deman
he measured the climate, the environment. he was trying through his message to bring us all together as one people, as one family, as one house, the american house, the world house. and there was room. there was a place for all americans. it was not just black americans. white americans, latinos, native americans, asian-americans, women, men, everybody. >> but we have largely forgotten that in the beginning, his words were stinging as they spoke about reality. >> in a sense, we have...
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and what if you thought federal laws to protect the environment were going to stop that oil-importing from happening? you'd set your sights on washington, spread some money around inside the beltway, hire big gun lobbyists to wine and dine the politicians, and stroke the regulators to let the "free market" work, right? right. you would do all that, but you wouldn't stop there. you'd also take your battle to the states, because if you can get laws that serve your interest in one state capitol after another, it might not matter much what washington has to say about it. especially in a time like this when our national government is polarized, paralyzed, and dysfunctional and an obstinate minority is determined to keep it that way. our 50 state capitols have long been the place where things happen. the taxes you pay, the roads you drive on, the quality of the air you breathe, and the water you drink, your right to privacy and your right to vote - these all bear the imprint of laws passed by the legislature in your home state. this report is about how some of those laws get enacted thanks
and what if you thought federal laws to protect the environment were going to stop that oil-importing from happening? you'd set your sights on washington, spread some money around inside the beltway, hire big gun lobbyists to wine and dine the politicians, and stroke the regulators to let the "free market" work, right? right. you would do all that, but you wouldn't stop there. you'd also take your battle to the states, because if you can get laws that serve your interest in one state...